Gideon Rose Quotes

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Allow the rich (no matter under what pretext, whether of philanthropy, or patriotism, or interest) to prescribe the education of the poor, and they prescribe their condition and relative importance.

Poor men's words have little weight.

The elite interests must not crowd out the interests of the citizens.

The First Law of Class Warfare: Once inequalities develop, the upper classes can, with relative ease, drastically reduce the probability of success for any equalizing challenges to the system.

An elite has prospered with our kinds of institutions, but the same cannot be said of the masses.

The elites benefit from affirmative action programs even when those programs are designed to help the masses.

Of the 1 Percent. By the 1 Percent. For the 1 Percent.

There were the well-to-do intellectuals, pushed toward Fascism by their hostility to the working masses and by their disdain of the uncouth ways of the Socialists who, without adequate preparation, had taken possession of many municipalities and had been administering them in a manner even more ridiculous than dishonest.

It is so obvious for the under-privileged to challenge the privileged, saying, 'How can you have something over me?' as opposed to the privileged person saying, 'How can we have something over the rest?' I find the latter more exciting.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.